What is most vile and despicable about money is that it even confers talent. And it will do so until the end of the world.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Oh I've plenty of time, my time is entirely my own.

He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A new overwhelming sensation was gaining more and more mastery over him every moment; this was an immeasurable, almost physical, repulsion for everything surrounding him, an obstinate, malignant feeling of hatred. All who met him were loathsome to him - he loathed their faces, their movements, their gestures. If anyone had addressed him, he felt that he might have spat at him or bitten him... .

If God does not exist, everything is permitted.

A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.